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- From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Tetris gripe
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.021611.12788@panix.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 02:16:11 GMT
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 34
-
- I have a major gripe to express tonight:
-
- Whilest browsing through one of the trade mags, I noticed a review of
- Desqview/X, while mentioned how it came with the requisite version of
- Tetris.
-
- Time out - didn't OS/2 2.0 beta have a version of Tetris? Yes, it did;
- I know because I wrote it. IBM Corporate had a problem with paying money
- to Spectrum Holobyte (the holder of the copyright) to license the concept
- of Tetris so that it can distribute the game with OS/2. However, Microsoft
- never had a problem and now it seems that Desqview's creators (whomever
- they are; I never was a Desqview fan) didn't either.
-
- Although I didn't assist in the transformation from its (very humble-looking)
- beginnings to what it was in its final distributed form, I was quite proud
- to have played a part in its writing mostly because so many people enjoyed
- playing it. Hell, even IBM Legal expressed extreme sorrow when they told me
- the final decision, for they played it too and found it highly enjoyable.
-
- Sure, it sounds like I'm griping about losing this simply because I wrote
- it, but I'm not really. What I'm griping about is how this is another
- example of IBM playing against itself in the development of OS/2 2.0.
- This goes in the catalog of screw ups along with the initial lack of
- marketing thrust and other such nonsense that always seem to show up.
-
- To qualm any forays against my integrity, I did not receive any compensation
- at all for any of my other contributions to the OS/2 2.0 product. Thus,
- there is/was no financial interest in having Blox/Tetris included.
-
- --
- Cheers,
- Q
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